ROME (AA) – Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has responded sharply to Elon Musk’s controversial comments on Italian judges. Musk, set to play a major role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, harshly criticized a Rome court for having blocked the detention of a second batch of migrants in an Albanian detention center. [&h...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada needs to act quickly to secure its borders against a “massive influx” of migrants because of Donald Trump’s US presidential triumph, Quebec Premier Francois Legault warned Wednesday. Quebec borders on four northeast US states, and Trump promised during his election campaign that he would order mass deportati...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Former US President Donald Trump claimed at a rally in Michigan on Friday that jobs traditionally held by Blacks were being increasingly taken by newly arrived migrants, attributing it to the Biden administration’s immigration policies. “It’s all gone to the migrants,” Trump told supporters, claiming that th...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese army has said that it had rescued 99 migrants, 98 Syrians and one Lebanese national, after two boats sank off its northern coast near Tripoli. In a statement, the army’s Directorate of Guidance said a naval patrol successfully carried out the rescue operation on Friday near the Ramkeen Island. Noting [&he...
Lalamusa, Pakistan — AFP A year after the disappearance of his brother in one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, Suleman Tariq wants answers. But, like other young Pakistanis, he is also determined to make it to Europe. Dozens of families gathered at a wedding hall in the Punjabi town of Lalamusa to mark […]
A boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, killing 49 migrants and leaving 140 others missing, the International Organization for Migration or IOM said on Tuesday. The vessel, carrying 260 migrants, capsized near Alghareef Point in Shabwah governorate. Among the dead were 31 women and six children. According to survivors, the boat departed from B...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans to sue President Joe Biden over a new executive order that restricts asylum for migrants crossing the southern border without authorization. Biden’s order, similar to a Trump-era policy, uses Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deny asylum when border encounters exceed 2,500 ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The bodies of 38 migrants have been recovered after a shipwreck off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday. In a brief statement, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that there were 22 survivors and that at least six missing […]
The U.S. border security authorities arrested 140,644 people in February for trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico. According to Customs and Border Protection data, the numbers are slightly higher than the previous month. However, this figure remains one of the lowest during President Joe Biden’s term. Republicans argue that Bid...
Tripoli, Libya – – AFP Libyan authorities began sending more than 320 irregular migrants to their home country Nigeria, an immigration official reported to the media. War-torn Libya has become as a key departure point on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast for migrants, mainly from other parts of Africa, risking dangerous sea ...